ALLENTOWN, Pa. — JOSHWAY, a local youth-focused nonprofit organization, will hold a community event Saturday in support of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
The Young Explorers: Dream Big Fly High 2025 event will be from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at New World Aviation–Hangar 9, at 987 Postal Road, in Allentown.
“Together, we’ll teach the next generation how to make a positive impact on the world through stories, gratitude, and giving back.”Dream Big Fly High 2025 Event
The event will teach youth participants about “self-reflection, creative projects and acts of kindness,” according to the registration page.
“Together, we’ll teach the next generation how to make a positive impact on the world through stories, gratitude, and giving back.”
Registration is required. There’s no entry fee, but participants are asked to bring a pair of gently used shoes as their “ticket” to support JOSHWAY’s shoe drive, which wraps up at the end of the month.
The shoe drive will help raise fund to support JOSHWAY's work.
JOSHWAY, founded in 2023, supports other Lehigh Valley nonprofit organizations that already work with local youth by organizing leadership programming.
Saturday’s event is open to people of all ages but is geared toward youth and families.
Crafts, makeovers, giving to others
Activities will be held in the hangar, alongside the planes stored there.
A Sweet & Sassy Pink Limo also will be on site for kids to get glitter tattoos and fairy tinsel makeovers, as well as for photo opportunities. Sweet & Sassy is a children’s spa and salon.
Youth participants at Saturday’s community event will get a JOSHWAY swag bag, and they will pack “hope backpacks” to send to pediatric cancer patients.
The “hope backpacks” will be filled with blankets, hats, socks and small toys.
Also at the event, youth participants will create superhero artwork for hospitalized children.
The children in the hospitals also will receive a copy of “JOSHWAY and the Power of Resilience,” a children’s book about adventure and facing challenges.
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month is observed annually in September.
According to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, more than 290 children and adolescents in the United States are diagnosed with cancer every week.
The survival rate for children and adolescents with cancer has improved over the past 50 years, increasing from 58-68% to 83-87% in recent years.
